This auction sells: lambs, sheep, goats, calves, beef cattle, pigs, rabbits, and all types of heavy fowl. Auctions are held every Tuesday with the first sale beginning at 10:30 am and ending at the last sale 5:30 pm. Hay, straw, grain, and firewood are also for sale. Farm Fresh Eggs available for purchase by the […]
Continue reading...August 3, 2019 Dean Polk, Dave Schmitt, Atanas Atanassov, Carrie Denson
Fruit IPM for August 4, 2019
Peach: Oriental Fruit Moth: Treatments for the 3rd generation OFM are timed for now in northern counties.
Continue reading...August 2, 2019 Andy Wyenandt
Vegetable Disease Update – 8/2/19
Cucurbit downy mildew was been reported on pumpkin in Warren County this week. All cucurbit growers are encouraged to scout their fields on a regular basis and to initiate a downy mildew specific fungicide program. This is the first report of CDM on pumpkin in New Jersey this growing season. Fungicides that are specific to […]
Continue reading...August 2, 2019 Andy Wyenandt
Controlling important fungal diseases in Asparagus during the summer.
Asparagus growers should consider scouting their fields during the summer months for foliar disease development. Important pathogens that growers need to scout for on a regular basis include Purple spot, Cercospora, and Rust.
Continue reading...July 31, 2019 Thierry Besancon
PHI for Select and Poast herbicides in peppers
The 1 day pre-harvest intervals (PHI) listed for Select 2EC, Select Max, and Poast herbicides in the pepper section of the 2019 Mid Atlantic Commercial Vegetable Production Recommendations is false. The actual PHI as found on the most recent labels of these herbicides are as follows: Select 2EC: 20 days Select Max 0.97EC: 20 days […]
Continue reading...July 31, 2019 Kris Holmstrom and Joe Ingerson-Mahar
Vegetable IPM Update 7/31/19
Sweet Corn European corn borer (ECB) moth captures have increased slightly in parts of the southern half of the state (see ECB map at left). Thus far, the second flight appears to be very weak, as is consistent with recent years’ second flights. Limited feeding has appeared in whorl and pre-tassel corn. Growers should continue […]
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